The Solon Springs plate. Relief from Copernicus GLO-30; rivers and lakes from USGS NHD; watersheds from the USGS Watershed Boundary Dataset; roads and city limits from Census TIGER 2024.
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−13° on Nov. 12, 1966, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1951. Next is −10° in 1959.
Solon Springs’s center stands about 1,110 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,010 ft to 1,300 ft, a difference of 290 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Pikes Peak, about 1,330 ft, 10 miles northwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Copper Harbor Conglomerate (sandstone, conglomerate), from the Mesoproterozoic, 1 to 1.6 billion years old.
The section below crosses 2 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 60×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Sandstone, conglomerate. Age: Mesoproterozoic, 1 to 1.6 billion years old. About 14 mi of the line.
Basalt. Age: Mesoproterozoic, 1 to 1.6 billion years old. About 10 mi of the line.
From the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation (Horton and others, 2017), the states’ geologic maps joined at a common scale.
Heights from Copernicus GLO-90 (a surface model: it includes buildings and tree canopy); summits from USGS GNIS; rivers from USGS NHDPlus HR; rock from the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation.
A raindrop that lands in Solon Springs reaches the Gulf of America by way of the Saint Croix and the Mississippi: about 1,960 river miles.
Lakes on the way: Lake Pepin and Lake Mallalieu 175.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Solon Springs; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Solon Springs has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 80° in July; winter nights fall to about −1° in January. A normal year brings about 60 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 33 inches of water.
On November 14 Solon Springs normally reaches 38° and falls to 22°. The record high is 67°, in 1999; the record low −10°, in 1959. The most rain on this date, 1.10 in, fell in 2010.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1951 at Gordon, 8 miles south. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
